Video Commerce Summit – A Hugely Creative and Collaborative Experience
I interview Jimmy Healey, Senior Manager of E-Commerce for Onlineshoes.com, at the 2010 Video Commerce Summit sponsored by Liveclicker. What do we talk about? (Well why don’t you quit being a lazy bum and actually read my article??) Ha ha.. seriously, we talk about you. (I mean, what you should be learning from OnlineShoes.com’s own experience with video in e-commerce.) Hey, it’s Friday and going to be my birthday week, guys – cut me a break!
Selling Your Business Culture With Web Video – The Zappos Experience
I interviewed Zappos.com’s Video Product Manager, Laurie Williams, who shares with me how her company Zappos is harnessing their “quirky” company culture to feature both staff and fans in online videos; and using personal engagement to sell their products, their brand, and their culture – for a groovy holistic video e-commerce experience.
Automated E-Commerce Video: Balancing Production Time With Creative Control
Grant Crowell interviews REI’s Video Art Director, Jason Lohr-Johnson, about how his company is learning to balance their new automated video production tool with both product videos and personalized videos, balancing SEO benefits with expertise, and tips for how you can be more productive and produce better-quality video for e-commerce.
How To Create An In-House Video Commerce Program, With No Budget!?
Grant Crowell inteviews Jason Arend, PFI Western’s VP of Media and Global Marketing, E-Commerce, and Creative Services. Jason shares his experiences with managing multiple companies’ multi-channel video properties, what he recommends for anyone who is looking to be successful with video in e-commerce today, and his secret for how PFI is doing it for no money. (That's right, NO MONEY.)
Ecommerce Retailers Split On YouTube Usage = Opportunity
YouTube was originally designed to be user-generated-content-driven. But since it has become the second largest search engine (2008) on the planet, marketers, advertisers and broadcasters have flocked to it. Have the E-tailers followed suit or are they lagging behind? The potential for E-tailers to get their name out in the general consciousness has never been ...
E-Commerce Video Strategies With The Home Shopping Network
ReelSEO.com's Grant Crowell interview HSN.com’s (Home Shopping Network’s) Director of Digital Content Emery Skolfied, following his presentation at the Video Commerce Summit in Seattle titled, “How HSN advances its video commerce leadership.” Emery talks about HSN’s own patented technology for online video in retail e-commerce, tips based on their own experiences using video with customers, and challenges they ha overcome with better understanding customer behavior.
E-Commerce Video SEO Snapshot Spells Huge Opportunity for Internet Retailers
We've seen a lot of research pointing to how effectively video helps increase conversion, sales and revenue for online retailers. But just how well are the online retailers doing from a search engine optimization viewpoint for that same video? Not well according to some recent research and that spells opportunity.
Video SEO and PPC Strategies for E-Commerce Video Online
ReelSEO publisher Mark Robertson was a featured speaker this past week at the 2010 Video Commerce Summit held Seattle, Washington. We’ve included here Mark’s full presentation titled, Building on the Success of Video with New PPC and SEO Strategies, which is also available on Slideshare.
Blip.tv Pre-Roll Video Ads Offer Downloads On Xbox 360
Blip.tv have taken interactive pre-roll ads to a whole new level in their bid to help Wieden & Kennedy get NCAA Football 11 in the public gamer consciousness. They created a click-to-download pre-roll mechanism that set the demo to download on the Xbox 360 console.
Optimized Video Delivers Success To E-Commerce Retailers
This is the story of two respected e-businesses who deployed video on their websites. One did it with SEO in mind and reaped the rewards in Google rankings and resulting page visits and sales. The other took an enormous cache of video content, uploaded it onto a website and left it there – unoptimized, untagged ...
Online Video, It's Not Just About Advertising Anymore
Well, it was most likely just porn at one point and then people realized they could make money off of it as a vehicle for advertising. Now it's everywhere and from what Paul Verna, Senior Analyst at eMarketer says, it's not all about advertising anymore.
Optimizing Online Video for ROI - Making Video Accountable
The demand for video from consumers has long been identified and early adopters in the e-tailing segment, such as Zappos, have publicly announced their intention to provide video alongside tens of thousands of product offerings in the coming year. There is a developing consensus that video is an important medium for highlighting the features of ...
Video Filled The Shopping Cart Up - ECommerce Music Video
ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell reports on the marketing strategy behind the self-made online music video by e-commerce video solutions provider, with their video titled “Video Filled the Shopping Cart.” (a takeoff on MTV’s first-ever video broadcast of “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles.)
Video E-Commerce and Video SEO for Retailers: The EMarketer Interview
ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell interviews senior eMarketer analyst Jeffrey Grau, author of the recently report, Video E-Commerce, Innovative Models Drive Sales. Jeffrey shares with Grant on how Video SEO also plays a big factor in driving e-commerce for retailers, and the importance to understanding key variables before deciding on a video e-commerce, or “vee-commerce” strategy of one’s own.
Studying E-Commerce Video At The 2010 Internet Retailer Conference and Expo
I'll (Grant Crowell here) be at the 2010 Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition (IRCE) June 8-11, 2010 at the McCormick Place West in downtown Chicago. I plan to report on what are the latest proven technologies and marketing strategies in e-commerce, and how online video is becoming an increasingly important part of that mix.
